Frost below 15 degrees struck in Moscow on Saturday night for the first time in the season, according to area places recorded temperatures below 20 degrees Celsius, told RIA Novosti in Central weather «Phobos».

The previous season record was recorded the day before in the night from Thursday to Friday, the temperature in Moscow dropped to minus 13.2 degrees, on area frosts reached the mark of 20 degrees.

«The beginning of the calendar winter in Moscow was marked by the strengthening of frosts. So, in Moscow, on basic weather station VDNH minimum thermometers showed minus 15.1 degrees, in Tushino minus 15.5 degrees. In the suburbs in some places were below minus 20 degrees,» — said in the message.